[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#744301: systemd: [PATCH] Provide a kernel-install package and enable EFI support

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: systemd
Severity: wishlist

systemd ships kernel-install which can be used to install kernels
for boot loaders conforming to the boot loader spec, such as gummiboot,
barebox, and potentially others I am not aware of.

This is implemented in:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/jak/systemd.git;a=summary

  git://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/jak/systemd.git

Notably, I cherry-picked the upstream commits for src/kernel-install,
and then changed all paths from /boot to /boot/efi, and added a
kernel-install package. Finally, I enabled EFI support.

Note that this patch set hard-codes /boot/efi for the boot loader
stuff. This is because /boot/efi is used by d-i on EFI installations
and because our kernels install to /boot directly, so we cannot
mount the ESP at /boot, as that would conflict with the goal of a
shared ESP partition.

For non-UEFI platforms this choice is a bit sub-optimal from a
name perspective, but I believe it is the best we can do, the
other alternatives I imagined would be:

* Use kernel preinst hooks to divert kernel installations to
  /boot/$MACHINE_ID/$KERNEL_VERSION/{vmlinuz,initrd}
* Create a symlink farm in /boot, pointing to the contents of
  /boot/efi


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (980, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.4-1
ii  libc6                2.18-4
ii  libcap2              1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.0-3
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-4
ii  libkmod2             16-2
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1          2.2.2-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-9
ii  libsystemd-id128-0   204-9
ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-9
ii  libsystemd-login0    204-9
ii  libudev1             204-9
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53
ii  udev                 204-9
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.7

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  204-9

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  systemd-ui  3-1

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-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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